Sabine Kowal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sabine Kowal is involved.
2022 Transcription systems for spoken discourse Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1839–1851 | Chapter
2009 Transcription systems for spoken discourse The Pragmatics of Interaction, D’hondt, Sigurd, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 240–254 | Article
2007 Interjections in literary readings and artistic performance Pragmatics 17:3, pp. 417–438 | Article
Numerosity and privileges of occurrence of various types of interjections (primary conventional, primary non-conventional, secondary, and onomatopoeic) were investigated in three different literary readings of Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne 1926), in one reading of Ulysses (Joyce 1960), and in an artistic… read more
2006 Laughter in the film The third man Pragmatics 16:2/3, pp. 305–327 | Article
Two types of laughter were investigated in both the English- and the German-language versions of the film noir The third man (Korda, Selznik, & Reed 1949, 1962): ha-ha laughter and laughter overlaid on spoken words. The present authors’ transcripts constituted the database of the investigation.… read more
2005 Laughter in Bill Clinton’s My life (2004) interviews Pragmatics 15:2/3, pp. 275–299 | Article
Two types of laughter of Bill Clinton and his interviewers – as an overlay of words spoken laughingly and laughter of the ha-ha sort - were investigated. The corpus consisted of 13 media interviews, all of which took place after the publication of his book My life (2004). Bill Clinton’s laughter… read more
2004 Hillary Clinton’s laughter in media interviews Pragmatics 14:4, pp. 463–478 | Article
Laughter in dialogue has been researched under the aegis of many different disciplines. The present approach is psycholinguistic, but with some reliance on recent research in phonetics and conversation analysis (CA). A corpus of laughter from four TV and two radio interviews of Hillary Clinton was… read more
2002 Personal perspective in TV news interviews Pragmatics 12:3, pp. 257–271 | Article
Two interviews by Christiane Amanpour televized September 8, 2000 on CNN, one with Ehud Barak and one with Yasser Arafat were analyzed for indicators of personal perspective. Generally, use of the same indicators as in Suleiman, O’Connell, & Kowal (2002) was confirmed: Number of syllables spoken;… read more
2002 An empirical investigation of pause notation Pragmatics 12:1, pp. 1–9 | Article
The current article examines the limitations of perceptual judgment for the transcription of pause occurrence and duration. This investigation extends Kowal and O’Connell’s (2000) previous research, which examined pause occurrence and duration notated by perceptual judgment with measurements from… read more
2000 Are transcripts reproducible? Pragmatics 10:2, pp. 247–269 | Article
The research reported here is part of a larger psycholinguistic project on transcribing and the use of transcripts. It is hypothesized that reproducing transcripts originally prepared on the basis of current transcription systems overloads the capability of those who carry out transcript… read more
1997 Theoretical ideals and their violation: Princess Diana and Martin Bashir in the BBC interview Pragmatics 7:3, pp. 309–323 | Article
1995 Transcription systems for spoken discourse Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 646–656 | Article
1994 Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis Pragmatics 4:1, pp. 81–107 | Article